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WEATHER <t '1'¥m (_!frtcin<NI Today: Rain 'RwillW High 54 Low 42 # Saturday: Mostly Sunny 1 COLLEGE High 50 Low 33 Sunday: Sunny High 50 Low 37 The Student Voice of Howard University Since 1924 VOLUJ\ttE 88, NO. 24 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2004 " ' "' 'v.thdtilltoponlint•.~·tlnt Students Voice Their Concerns During Town Hall Meeting BY LAUREN STEPHENS Among the departments HUSA in your House tours and HUSA reach the $s,ooo goal for as soon as ppssible. much response from the audi­ Hilltop Staff Writer represented were the Office of plans for HUSA to remain vis­ a donation to the Campaign for "We know that when _people ence was the showers in Carver the Provost, Residence Life, ible to the student body in the Howard. get up to the microphone, they Hall. Pictures taken by the HUSA Members of the sh1dent financial aid, campus security, second half of the year. Vice President Freda can tell you whatever, but we staff showed how water damage body were given an opportunity parking and shuttle bus opera­ "We intend to work witl1 Henry and Director of Student actually know these people and has left stalls in the men's dorm to voice any of their concerns tions and deans from the various the graduate and undergradu­ Advocacy Comtney Watson pre­ we have 1net with these people," nearly unusable. regarding the University on schools and colleges. ate trustee to do sometl1ing sented the panel and audience Henry said. "They have told us While Dean of Residence Monday, Nov. 8 in the Ballroom Before students in the audi­ next semester with President with the results of a survey of things and they haven't neces­ Life Charles Gibbs claimed to of the Blackburn Center. ence were able to address their Swyge1t," Woody said. "\Ve 200 students asl<lng their big­ sarily done· those things. We have no prior knowledge of the As a part of this year's Re­ concerns, HUSA President intend to be advocates all year. gest problems at Howard. wanted them to state before their state of the shower stalls, he Definition campaign, adminis­ Conrad Woody delivered the The HUSA office has an open The survey found that stu­ peers and before their bosses promised action. trators from all areas of campus State of the University Address, door policy and we will continue dents are most concerned with and supervisors what's really "They won't be like that were invited to participate in the outlining the steps that have been the HUSA in your House tour customer service, especially in going on so that if things don't come s p.m. tomorrow," Gibbs Town Hall meeting. taken to implement the plans to remain visible and to address the Administration building, happen, Conrad and I can fol­ said. The audience of under­ discussed in the Re-Definition student needs and concerns for campus security and safety and low up appropriately. We didn't According to HUSA pro­ graduate and graduate students, campaign during the election. the rest of the year," Woody the condition of the dorms. After want it to just be a question and grams director Sheree King, faculty, and staff were intro­ Woody spoke about said. each issue was presented, imme­ answer session because that is Gibbs has followed through on duced to the panel by moderator the success of the Student Woody also left the audience diate feedback was asked of the not always the most, effective his pron1ise and called plumb- Chequan Lewis, the director of Organizational Retreat, First with the challenge to donate appropriate administrator about way to get things done." political affairs for HUSA. Fridays in the Punch Out, the $18.76 in an effort to help how the issue can be remedied One issue that caused the See HUSA, News A3 Student Health Center Scheduled to Reopen Monday BY AYESHA RASCOE The Howard hospital's Family approval." H/lltop Staff Writer Practice Clinic is providing the Garrett said he expects the rooms. Pharmacy Board to approve Garrett said his goal was reopening the pharmacy on Currently not operat­ for the entire building to be Monday. ing at full capacity, Howard totally restored by today. He As Garrett worked University's Student Health warned, though, that this toward restoring the center, Center is still recovering from nlight not be possible. he said he was pleased with the fire that caused e>..'tensive "That may slip a little bit," the quick response of vari­ damage on October 24. Garrett said. "This is almost ous university agencies such Since the fire, the health total destruction." Instead of as Infonnation Services and center has accepted patients today, the entire Medical Arts Support and Physical Facilities to determine their health sta­ Building will resume normal Management. Within minutes tus but all emergencies were operations on Tuesday, includ­ after the fire, he said Howard sent to the Howard University ing the health center's phar­ University President H. Patrick Hospital. macy. Swygert was on the phone tell­ Student Health Center Although the whole build­ ing him that the repairing the director McLain Garrett, how­ ing was affected, the pharma­ health center was top priority. ever, stressed that the health cy was one area of particular Garrett feels his experi­ center "never shut down." concern. It suffered water and ence in the days since the fire is He said that contractors have smoke da1nage and many med­ indicative of uni I) at Howard. been called in to complete icines have to be replaced. "\"lhen we have to come various tasks such as purifying "Because the pharmacy is together, we do," he said. air ducts, replacing all the car­ registered by the DC govern­ Unlike Garrett, some stu­ peting, and cleaning the entire ment, officials gave us a laun­ dents do not feel very posi­ building to help get the center dry list of things to do before tively about the aftermath of fully operational. it can be opened up," Garrett the health center fire. On Monday, the clinic said. "It's a huge 1nconve- is scheduled to begin seeing "I cannot give one piece of I i;.1 Cft>totl\on-StMfT J'h1•IC)j:taphtr patients on the fourth floor medicine until the D.C. phar­ See SHC, News AS While a fire in the Medical Arts Building has left the Student Health Clinic out of operation for of the student health center. macy board gives its statnp of the past few weeks, the entire building is scheduled for reopening Tue day. Author Hosts Down Low Discussion Howard Students Compete in Battle BY AYESHA RASCOE Hilltop Staff Writer of the Brains' Computer Contest BY EBONY MEEKS from around the globe, includ­ sor in the computer science Contributing Writer ing nine Howard University African-American women department in the College of students, will gather at accounted for 72 percent of Engi 'leering Architecture and \Vhat do 3,000 teams from Shippensburg University in HIV I AIDS diagnoses from 1999- ON Comput"r Science, is coaching 70 countries and six continents Pennsylvania tomorrow for an Howard's team for the third 2002. It was statistics such as have in common? One goal: all-out "Battle of the Brains," year. this that J.L. King impressed Tl-I I; to champion the 2004-2005 sponsored by IBM. "\Ve consider it a victory upon students when he visited Association for Computing The winning team will earn Howard University. when we are competitive," DOWN Machinery's International a spot at the World Finals to Keeling said. "Many of the other Presented by the Collegiate Programming be held in Shanghai, China in schools like Yale and Harvard Undergraduate Student Contest. April. Assembly, King spoke about his LOW Computer programmers Harry Keeling, profes- See IBM, News A3 best-selling novel, On the Down Loiv: A Journey Into the Lives of 'Straight' Black Men Who Sleep With Men, Wednesday night in Blackburn's East Ballroom. King promoted HIV I AIDS I I I , \ awareness and prevention, as \t11rtcne Ha"'throne·Sluff Phocogrophtr well as the trend of J.L. King, author of best-selling novel On the Down Low, African-American men who spoke about his book in Blackburn's East Ballroom secretly have sexual relation­ Wednesday night. ships with other n1en, commonly dents'] relationships, but their tions major Candace Paul said called "men on the down low." health, too." she wanted to know why men Members of UGSA said they 1Vlen1bers of the audience choose to live this lifestyle. invited King to speak because commented that they Cdme to "Basically, I just wanted to they wanted to shed light on this the event to gain insight into the see what's the rationale for this," matter. world of men on the down low. Paul said. "If you are gay, why "Now, men on the down low "We need to know what's don't you just say 'I'm gay'?" is such a big phenomenon in the going on," said Gera Robinson, King addressed this subject community," said a freshman radio, TV and film during the question and answer Courtney Nelson, coordina­ major.